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BLOOD STAINED · CAUTION

EXERCISE 4 OF 64
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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PART S5
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIVADANO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLOOD STAINED on drums

130 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-47 and snare through bars 48-64, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 57-62 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-xxxxxxxx|
BLOOD STAINED -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part S5 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BLOOD STAINED?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is BLOOD STAINED hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in BLOOD STAINED?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED